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Atari
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Posted: 25th Mar 2003 23:32
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What are the DATA and READ statements?I read the help and i program in several languages(c/c++, pascal, java etc...) but can't understand what is that.
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Shadow Robert
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Posted: 26th Mar 2003 00:02
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its basically a way of adding specific data into an array for use
kinda like saving the arrays after they're filled and load them later

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Atari
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Posted: 26th Mar 2003 00:42
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i still can't understand...it's looking the same thing as an array data type but with diferents data types stored in the same list.Is it?
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andrew11
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Posted: 26th Mar 2003 00:44
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Raven didn't explain it.

Say you had a mario game with 10 different sprites (Mario, Koopa, Goomba, Item, etc.)

You wouldn't want to say "Sprite 112,12,14,13" hundreds of times.

You could write your level like this, where 5 = Mario, 3 = box, and 1 = Ground:



This shows the positions of each tile.

Then use read:



The x and y have nothing to do with read, but it makes it easier to map out the level.

Hope this helps

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Posted: 26th Mar 2003 02:24
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Now i understand.Thank You.
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